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		<title>PSP Review &#8211; ModNation Racers PSP</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 14:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Flores</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new racer enters the racing scene, and it&#8217;s ModNation Racers PSP. Find out if this game should race onto your PSP or merely drift away. When you see a kart racing game, you can already think of some that hold their ground and stay true to the genre.  On the portable side of things, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_3454" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 600px"><a href="http://www.psnathome.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/MNRPSP1.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-3454" title="MNRPSP1" src="http://www.psnathome.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/MNRPSP1.jpg" alt="" width="590" height="320" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Kart Racing hits the PSP</p></div>
<p>A new racer enters the racing scene, and it&#8217;s ModNation Racers PSP. Find out if this game should race onto your PSP or merely drift away.</p>
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<p>When you see a kart racing game, you can already think of some that hold their ground and stay true to the genre.  On the portable side of things, you rarely see a game like this. Kart Racing with this much havoc on the PSP is something unique to see once you boot it up. Being developed from the team at SCE San Diego and United Front Games, they did what they could to make this &#8220;<em><strong>Play, Create, Share</strong></em>&#8221; racer fit on the PSP.</p>
<div id="attachment_3463" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 600px"><a href="http://www.psnathome.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/MNRPSP2.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-3463" title="MNRPSP2" src="http://www.psnathome.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/MNRPSP2.jpg" alt="" width="590" height="320" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Take a nice cruise in the jungle</p></div>
<p>In ModNation racers you play as a graffiti artist named Tag who wants to join the MRC and compete his kart to become champion of the sport. You&#8217;ll be joined by your mom (who doesn&#8217;t count as a fan by the way) and Chief, an MRC veteran who helps you stay on the right track and gives you a bit of his wisdom. Once you boot up, you&#8217;ll be introduced to a slick looking menu that is a bit different than the PS3 version. Here you&#8217;ll find the career mode where you can start up your career as a ModNation Racer or just place a single race, play with your friends or take it online against other people around the world. There&#8217;s also the community area where you can download custom made Mods, share your own creations or to check the leaderboards. The menu&#8217;s are simple and you&#8217;ll have no trouble getting into a race.</p>
<div>Career mode is your standard race story, start from the bottom and get to the top of the racing charts but, as you continue to move up the races get more hectic. Along the way you&#8217;ll see some interesting cut scenes on your way to become champion. Most of the cut scenes are with the two anchors who cover all the action, and they are Biff Tradwell and Chad Reasons.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">These two will provide humor as you rise up among the elite. Gameplay for ModNation Racers PSP is pretty good as far as races go, they start out easy but become challenging as you move along but, I felt as the AI wasn&#8217;t there as much to prevent you from winning. From time to time they will attack but then they usually get caught in traps around the level or sometimes get stuck. In the beginning you&#8217;ll learn the basics of how to use everything from power-ups to learning how to take out your opponents by side-swiping them and stomping them.</p>
<div id="attachment_3461" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 339px"><a href="http://www.psnathome.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/MNRPSP3.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-3461" title="MNRPSP3" src="http://www.psnathome.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/MNRPSP3.jpg" alt="" width="329" height="196" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Better watch out cause that rocket is coming for you!</p></div>
<p>As you read yes, you can take out your opponents by two ways. However, for side-swiping and stomping you&#8217;ll need to earn boost to fill up your boost meter. Boost is what you get by taking the lead in a race, hitting the other racers with a weapon power up, drifting, or using your shield to absorb an attack. Once you have your boost meter filled up, you can use it to boost past the other racers, shield yourself from weapons that are on the attack and stomp/sideswipe your opponents out of the race for a couple seconds. All of these tactics are necessary for you to get to the top and plus their really awesome.</p>
<p>Power-ups are obtained while in the race, you can get stuff like rockets, sonic booms, a speed boost, a lightning bolt, and finally a speed boost. Unlike the PS3 version, you can only collect one power-up and use only one. On the PS3 version, you can collect three to make the power-up even powerful but on the PSP side it doesn&#8217;t feel as powerful as you would expect to see on the PS3 version. The sounds for the game are pretty good as well as the choice of music which is great for a kart racer since it&#8217;s pretty unique to hear such a soundtrack for a game like this as it does put you in the racing mood. Drifting is where the fun happens, in every race you&#8217;ll want to drift no matter what to fill up your boost meter and take the lead on the competition but at times, drifting can feel a bit heavy and you can sometimes crash into walls very easily if you don&#8217;t drift correctly. To get this out of the way, visually ModNation PSP is a bit of an eye sore. When creating my character it seemed like the my character was too blurry and had a lot of jagged edges. For racing however, everything looks great. One minute you&#8217;ll be in a alpine city and the next you&#8217;ll be racing in the desert looking at each environment that looks pretty good especially for a PSP game. Cut-scenes look great but their not in-game unlike it&#8217;s bigger brother.</p>
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<p>Let&#8217;s move away from the racing and visuals, and jump right into the customization. For your character you can customize him/her with what the developers were able to put in the PSP version. There is a lot of stuff that you can unlock and use to trick out your ride. When you race in the career mode, there will be certain tasks that you can do that will unlock more items for you to use on your ride and your character. Making your own custom track is also another cool feature. It&#8217;s really simple how you can make your own track without any hassle. The developers really wanted to make customization easy and I can say that they did. I was able to make a track in about a couple a minutes and it was very easy. For character customization, it&#8217;s simple but it feel&#8217;s like there isn&#8217;t a lot of items that you can use since the PSP is very limited. Other than that, it&#8217;s really great to see how easy it is to create and share your ideas.</p>
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<div>Also included in ModNation Racers PSP is both local and online multiplayer. Now when I played online, I did not have any issues what so ever meaning no lag at all and everything played out smoothly. Once online you can host or join a game and that&#8217;s it. For joining a game, a list of games will appear and you select one that&#8217;s currently available for you to play. When you host, you can select from a range of areas that you can race on such as raceways that are great for drifting or great for pulling off stunts. Of course online races will get hectic with 6 players going at it but to me, I felt that it won&#8217;t appeal to many because of it&#8217;s bigger brother on PlayStation 3. You can also earn XP but it stays hidden and what I didn&#8217;t like is that you can&#8217;t text chat nor voice chat with the other players while in a match or in a lobby. Private matches are also at a lost here unless you play via Ad-Hoc. There isn&#8217;t really  much to do online for ModNation Racers PSP but, it&#8217;s well worth a try and it can be fun at times.</div>
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<div id="attachment_3464" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 600px"><a href="http://www.psnathome.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/MNRPSP4.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-3464" title="MNRPSP4" src="http://www.psnathome.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/MNRPSP4.jpg" alt="" width="590" height="320" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Things can get crazy and sparks will fly!</p></div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">On the go ModNation Racers PSP is something that PSP owners should give a try as it is a new style of gaming on PSP. Overall, ModNation Racers PSP is a neat kart racing/ play, create, share title for PSP but with the little hitches and not much to do in multiplayer, this version just doesn&#8217;t have that something that the PlayStation 3 version has. Visuals aren&#8217;t as impressive yet it does hold it&#8217;s ground on the PSP and the racing can be clunky at times. If you were to choose a version, it&#8217;s a no brainer that the PlayStation 3 version should get your hard earned dollars than ModNation Racers PSP. Decent, yet not as bright as many would expect. For both Career and Multiplayer, ModNation Racers PSP won&#8217;t keep you coming back. I was able to beat the campaign in about 6 hours, and the Multiplayer is fun but at most decent. Overall, I felt that a lot could have been done on the PSP version but it&#8217;s a average experience nonetheless.</div>
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		<title>Rock Band Unplugged Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 02:58:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Flores</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you always wanted to take your Rock Band stuff on the go without the hassle? We&#8217;ll look no further, Rock Band Unplugged is here and it&#8217;s pretty sweet to take you band on the go. For all your rockers out there Rock Band Unplugged is a smaller of the Rock Band Games, and it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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<p>Have you always wanted to take your Rock Band stuff on the go without the hassle? We&#8217;ll look no further, Rock Band Unplugged is here and it&#8217;s pretty sweet to take you band on the go.<br />
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<p>For all your rockers out there Rock Band Unplugged is a smaller of the Rock Band Games, and it&#8217;s a very interesting port why you ask? Well, not only do you play one instrument, you play all of them, which really gives you a challenge. When I first picked this game up I didn&#8217;t have a lot of high hopes for this game but as soon as the notes came down the screen I was hooked instantly. I was ready for anything that came down but of course were all not perfect when playing Rock Band. For Rock Band Unplugged, you take the role of a band since the PSP cannot use any of the crafty instruments that your bought for your system. From the game you can pretty much customize your band to the way you want them to look and start your career to become famous rock stars.</p>
<p>You start out as all rock bands do, doing small time gigs to earn your credit bit by bit. Once you&#8217;ve done the smaller gigs of course you begin to earn items like a van, a tour bus, and a plane, etc. , and of course, you play songs that start off easy and get incredibly difficult like ABC-by the Jackson 5, Miss Murder by AFI and much more to play. Along with your band you need a manager to help you out along the way and with these comes choices such as playing a show for the fans, or Double or Nothing for the cash flow, with your choice of managers come even more choices that help you out in the game. For the game it-self what more do you want me to tell you other than me saying it&#8217;s Rock Band but, on the go with 41 Master Tracks (yes, I said that correctly). You pretty much play one phrase on an instrument of the song and when you complete that phrase you then move on to another phrase and progress from there. If you miss a beat though you&#8217;ll have to play the song even though other phrases are going down the screen and try to pick up from there. Rock Band Unplugged uses the PSP greatly and is really good for a PSP game although we are spoiled with the graphics that we see today. For the PSP this is the 1st game to have Downloadable Content for you to use right off your memory stick.</p>
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<p>Issues with the game is that, the only person who is in sync with the songs is well the vocalist, you other bandmates will just pretty much do anything and it looks like their not going along with the sounds of the sounds even though your hitting all the notes. Another thing is that, the downloadable content is great but it won&#8217;t keep me coming back to play on my PSP, I think the main songs there are good as is even though their a mixture from the Rock Band games. Also there aren&#8217;t a lot of items in the game for you to fully customize your characters to you likings, hopefully there&#8217;s another Rock Band Unplugged coming out (That&#8217;s right EA/Harmonix you heard me).</p>
<p>Other than the issues listed above this game is really great for you to have on the go I mean, we&#8217;ve all asked for some type of rock game to take with us on the go (like the DS which has Guitar Hero), but Rock Band Unplugged makes things so much better for having a PSP.</p>
<p><strong>Scores:</strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Presentation: 9.0 </span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Graphics:</span> 8.5</strong><br />
<strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Sound:</span> 10</strong><br />
<strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Gameplay:</span> 9.0</strong><br />
<strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Replay Value:</span> 8.0</strong></p>
<p><strong>Final Score: 8.9</strong></p>
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		<title>Secret Agent Clank (PSP)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 02:23:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Griffin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Secret Agent Clank has all your favorite Characters from other Ratchet and Clank games. With a some new Super Secret Spy Weapons such as the Tie-A-Rang, Cufflink Bombs and my all time favorite the deadly Tanglevine Carnation. This game starts out showing a cut scene of how everything happened, how Ratchet was wrongly imprisoned and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Secret Agent Clank has all your favorite Characters from other Ratchet and Clank games. With a some new Super Secret Spy Weapons such as the Tie-A-Rang, Cufflink Bombs and my all time favorite the deadly Tanglevine Carnation.</p>
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<p>This game starts out showing a cut scene of how everything happened, how Ratchet was wrongly imprisoned and how Clank is such a super great Spy! You jump right into the game from there.</p>
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<p>This game does an excellent job teaching you the controls and how you should do everything in the game. Overall for the PSP the graphics are not half bad I must say they are not super amazing either.</p>
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<p>All of the weapons, and characters all have very good sound effects with them. The voice acting is very enjoyable also I really have no complaints with any of the sounds in this game.</p>
<p>You will notice though with an older PSP (original one) that there are some points with freezing up. I cannot confirm if this is true with the newer (slim) PSP&#8217;s or not. I am assuming it does not have this trouble thanks to the extra memory it has. If you are anything like me the slight freeze in this game is not to bad and it does not make you get killed.</p>
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<p>The AI is very basic in this game, they run at you and they tend to be pretty easy to fight off till later in the game when they get bigger, badder and much stronger. This is where the Tanglevine Carnation is your best friend in the world!</p>
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<p>If you are a fan of Captain Qwark well your going to love this game! You get play through his crazy stories he tells&#8230; which usually turn out to be quite a challenging but fun game.</p>
<p>Now just because this game focuses on Clank does not mean Ratchet is no longer playable&#8230; remember Ratchet put a lot of the people in prison. So he gets to meet up with them again in a massive arena battle which start to become a challenge once you get further into the game.<br />
Although some of these Arena Battles are mandatory not all of them are. So do not worry about completing them all unless you want to unlock all the weapons and get tons of bolts!</p>
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<p>This game, along with all other Ratchet and Clanks has one very enjoyable Story. They have done an excellent job of joining old characters in with a totally new game that does not have it&#8217;s main focus on Ratchet.</p>
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<p>Overall I believe this game is a must buy if your a fan of the Ratchet and Clan series. Although if you are not I highly suggest you at LEAST rent this game.</p>
<p><strong>Graphics: </strong>8<br />
<strong>Game-play: </strong>9<br />
<strong>Storyline: </strong>10<br />
<strong>Sounds: </strong>10<br />
<strong>Controls: </strong>9.5</p>
<p><strong>Total: </strong>9.5</p>
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		<title>Hot Shots Golf: Open Tee 2 Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 02:16:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Griffin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hot Shots Golf: Open Tee 2, the must buy Portable Arcade Golf Game! This game is a lot of fun if you enjoy Golf games and are on the go! Although I personally enjoyed Hot Shots Golf: Out of Bounds more but, if you are on the go this game is worth the $29.99 it [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: left;">Hot Shots Golf: Open Tee 2, the must buy Portable Arcade Golf Game! This game is a lot of fun if you enjoy Golf games and are on the go! Although I personally enjoyed Hot Shots Golf: Out of Bounds more but, if you are on the go this game is worth the $29.99 it will cost you!</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Graphics: </strong>The graphics in this game are nothing to go head over heels about but overall for a portable golf game what more would you want? I must say that there are some real cool camera angles I enjoyed quite a bit and some beautiful golf courses which really do look great. Personally on my portable games I do not expect amazing graphics so this should not even matter to any readers.</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Gameplay: </strong>The Gameplay is what you&#8217;d expect&#8230; it&#8217;s golf! The putting style is nothing knew from other Hot Shot games and you can pick between Easy Shot and Normal Shot. Aside from that the game is Tournament Style as in all Sports games with Online Play and Ad-Hoc play. So if you feel like beating your friend it makes it quite easy <img style="border: 0pt none; vertical-align: middle;" src="../old/images/emotes/default/wink.png" alt="" /> . I sadly have not been able to try the online play out yet because&#8230; well not many people have this game yet, and the select few whom do I have not seen online. Although I am sure it is just as much fun as the single player although you get to beat real people!</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Controls: </strong>The controls in this game are the same as the last, which isn&#8217;t a bad thing it has a very easy system of lining up your shot with the D-Pad and depending on your Easy or Normal Shot Style it goes from there.</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Sound: </strong>The music in this game is pretty boring and very repetitive. I would love to see a feature where you can access the music off your Pro Duo Stick that way you are not forced to listen to elevator music while playing.</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">Overall I would suggest buying this game if you enjoy the Hot Shots Golf series and are looking for it on the go. This game is a bargain for $29.99 if you enjoy other golf games I suggest you at least rent this game. It is a fun on-the-go Golf Game.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Graphics: </strong>8.5<br />
<strong>Gameplay: </strong>9.5<br />
<strong>Controls: </strong>9.0<br />
<strong>Sound: </strong>6<br />
<strong>Overall: </strong>8.3</p>
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		<title>Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 02:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Griffin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core, Let the fanboy in us cry with joy. The third compilation in the Final Fantasy VII series is set Set seven years prior to the events of the first FINAL FANTASY VII and after the events of &#8220;Before Crisis:Final Fantasy VII&#8221; a GBA game that released a while back. You [...]]]></description>
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<p>Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core, Let the fanboy in us cry with joy. The third compilation in the Final Fantasy VII series is set Set seven years prior to the events of the first FINAL FANTASY VII and after the events of &#8220;Before Crisis:Final Fantasy VII&#8221; a GBA game that released a while back. You play the role as &#8220;Zack &#8220;, A SOLDIER operative looking to be a hero and his interactions with three principle characters: Angeal, Genesis and Sephiroth. While other characters come into play, including a few familiar faces, this small collection of SOLDIER operatives hold the majority of the spotlight.</p>
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<p>On his way to become the best he can be to rank a 1st Class Soldier, the game begins with Zack and his mentor, Angeal, being sent on a mission to subdue hostile forces in Wutai and investigate the disappearance of fellow SOLDIER Genesis. Things get Seriously more complicated as things progress into something far deeper then he though. The events that fallow give allot of back story to what really went down before the storyline of VII started, Answers some questions but still leaves more to be wondered as the story progresses.</p>
<p>Lets get some things Straight before continuing along with the article. The game keeps the tone relatively in touch with the original game, not only thematically but physically as well. To clarify, Crisis Core has a similar tone and style to its predecessor, including the game&#8217;s atmosphere, sense of humor and overall design.a number of the locales in Crisis Core are actual 3D redesigns of the original environments in Final Fantasy VII. Any fan who remembers walking through the lobby of Shinra Headquarters will feel like there in magic kingdom when they see it so accurately re-created in Crisis Core.</p>
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<p>But unlike its predecessor which was a turn based fighting style game. Crisis Core is after all an Action RPG. There for all the battles are played out in real time. Crisis Cores combat is a big part of the overall game besides story telling and pretty cut scenes. This time around you explore real time rendered 3D backgrounds and settings around you. Battles happen at random( Yes random battles are still around, But its good now!). The monsters fade into the scene as Zack goes into a battle stance with his sword ready for battle. While the battle begins an invisible barrier encloses you to blend you in a temporary battle arena until the fight is over. Once your Conflict is resolved your character does the traditional (flip the sword around about 20 times) before holstering it back on his back , and your off on your mission again.</p>
<p>Battling in this game is fun and easy to control.The X button selects whatever action your cursor is on across the small menu at the bottom of your HUD (the L and R triggers are used to move this cursor back and forth). The square and triangle buttons command Zack to roll and block, respectively, while circle resets your command cursor back to the default Attack action.This makes easy access to your items very very easy and adds to the quickness of battle.</p>
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<p>Your menu can be customized in terms of what magic and special abilities you wish to have access to during battle. Equipping materia will enable certain commands to be selected, which worked realy well for a real-time battle system. It requires a bit of planning and limits the amount of actions Zack can take, meaning players have to think about what to use and what to leave out.</p>
<p>In the tradition of FFVII, materia plays a big part in beefing up Zack’s stats and skills during battles. The materia in Crisis Core consists of 3 main kinds: magic, skills and stats-enhancement. To activate a certain magic, you’ll need to equip it to make it work; likewise for stats-enhancement and unique skills. Initially, you will only be able to equip 4 materia, and later in the game, 6. The limitation in numbers effectively prevents Zack from becoming much too powerful, which is a good thing in my opinion. But since there is such a huge selection of materia to choose from, you are definitely going to have a headache deciding which to use.</p>
<p>Also, there is a feature much later into the game that allows you to fuse materia to create more powerful versions of themselves. The fusing system is pretty deep, allowing you to fuse materia of different types (ie. Magic with skill). In addition, you will even be allowed to throw in an item to boost the fusing process. If you love customization, you are going to love this but if you are not; fusing is not really a necessity as the materia you get from normal battles are sufficient to take you right to the end.</p>
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<p>The most unique aspect of Crisis Cores real time battle system was the DMW, or Digital Mind Wave. This three-reeled slot system is constantly spinning and dictates a number of things: when you perform Limit Breaks, when you summon, when you level up and even when your materia is leveled up. All is decided through various match-ups of numbers and portraits which show up on the reels. This system was confusing at first to wrap your head around how this worked but in no time the mechanics made sense. I was a little disappointed with the inability to select which summons and limit breaks i wanted to use when i wanted to use them, since the DMW determines when during the battle these actions take place. All the fun in getting summon materia and limit breaks is swapping and selecting wich ones you want to use at the time there given to you. Whats up with that square!?</p>
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<p>Cut scenes in this game are beautiful at best, Emerging you into the story line then ever before. putting you right into the things you want to see with such detail its like an orgasm for your eyes. Leaving you breathless and craving more. Lots of answers to some of the questions you had during the original game some eleven years ago. Why was aerith selling flowers? Why is there a hole in the roof of the church? How did Cloud get involved in the whole story? ITS ALL THERE! unfolding before your eyes.</p>
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<p>All in all this is an amazing title, Just fallowing up to the storyline in Final Fantasy VII is a fanboys dream. Actually seeing why things are the way they are in VII actually unfolding in front of your eyes in Crisis Core is amazing and breathtaking. This title is a must buy for fans not of just of FF VII but RPG games in general.</p>
<p>9.0/10</p>
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		<title>God of War: Chain&#8217;s of Olympus</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 01:41:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Flores</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the makers of Daxter, ReadyAtDawn Studios bring you God of War: Chains of Olympus. These guys know how to make a badass game on the PSP, no joke. God of War: Chains of Olympus takes you on a wild ride from Attica, to the Underworld itself. You play of course as Kratos our Spartan [...]]]></description>
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<p>From the makers of Daxter, ReadyAtDawn Studios bring you God of War: Chains of Olympus. These guys know how to make a badass game on the PSP, no joke.</p>
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<p>God of War: Chains of Olympus takes you on a wild ride from Attica, to the Underworld itself. You play of course as Kratos our Spartan of love who&#8217;s always around when you need him (not really but you get it). The story is a prequel to &#8220;God of War&#8221;, where Kratos is serving his 10 years to the Gods but, as you know Kratos grows weary of being a slave and wants to free himself from his horrible nightmares and thus leads him onto his adventure which apparently has to stop a black mist which leaves the Gods powerless and he must stop from covering Sparta and the world.</p>
<p>So Kratos on the PSP eh? Doesn&#8217;t mix to you huh? well wrong, ReadyAtDawn did a really good job from animation to the gameplay, and to the way Kratos is on the PSP itself.</p>
<p>Gameplay wise you can expect all of the gamplay that you&#8217;ve come to love on the PS2 but playing with one analog stick does suit very nicely even the when the combo buttons comes up they still reamin the same. Loading times are super quick as well as loading your saved games so they won&#8217;t let you miss a beat, and the game is hard to put down since there is a bunch of twist and turns.</p>
<p>Animation are very well done to Kratos moving, to the button mashing, and Kratos looks damn good on the PSP. Attack animations are crystal and are so good you&#8217;ll forget that your playing the game on a PSP.</p>
<p>Graphics are breathtaking for a portable game and Kratos is polished up the right way so that he&#8217;ll own the baddies with pleasure. The backgrounds are amazing and the levels are superb if I may say. ReadyAtDawn did a very well job putting this game together.</p>
<p>Sounds are well the &#8220;God of War&#8221; sounds, the score is solid, and it&#8217;s what you&#8217;ve would come to expect in a &#8220;God of War&#8221; game, but when playing it you may want to use your headphones to get a good feel of the sounds and of the score.</p>
<p>Extras you ask? yep, God of War: Chains of Olympus come with oodles<br />
of goodies for you to do afterward you&#8217;ve successfully beat the game, such as Costumes for you to play as, Videos, Images and of course the Challenges. Also when you start a new game you&#8217;ll still have all the Weapons and Magic that you&#8217;ve gained in your past game.</p>
<p>Now bad things&#8230;. Sounds are sometimes ok but still wear headphones when playing this game, there can be some framerate chops in the game but it doesn&#8217;t usually happen all the time, In our reviewable copy I had some frame chops but that didn&#8217;t slow me down. Also when you use the analog stick to do combos it will be difficult 80% of the time. The game is only 5 hours short so one sit through is pretty much all you need.</p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Scores</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Presentation: 95</span></strong><br />
ReadyAtDawn knows how to make their games.</p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Graphics: 100</span></strong><br />
&#8220;Wait this is a PSP game?&#8221;</p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Sound: 90</span></strong><br />
Some issues here and there, but the score makes up for it.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Gameplay: 95</strong></span><br />
You won&#8217;t put it down, unless your neck gets tired.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Replay Value: 90</strong></span><br />
The Extras will keep you busy and you may want to play the story again.</p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Final Score</span></span></strong><br />
94</p>
<p><span style="font-size: 20px;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #333333;">PSN@Home&#8217;s Editors</span> <span style="color: #ffffff;">Choice</span></span></strong></span></p>
<p>Seriously go and buy this game, ReadyAtDawn deserves $40 for this incredible game on the PSP. The Ending will also surprise you.</p>
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		<title>Wipeout Pulse (PSP) Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 01:38:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Flores</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wipeout does not change much from game to game, but it seems the features on this Wipeout have really changed. Well, the name says everything out the gameplay, well at least for me, you will most likely wipeout pretty often, unless you have a very steady finger. You might be saying &#8220;well, just because you [...]]]></description>
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<p>Wipeout does not change much from game to game, but it seems the features on this Wipeout have really changed.</p>
<p>Well, the name says everything out the gameplay, well at least for me, you will most likely wipeout pretty often, unless you have a very steady finger. You might be saying &#8220;well, just because you are getting pwned by the computer, does&#8217;nt mean you can give this a bad review&#8221;, well that&#8217;s not true, because besides me being terrible at the game, the gameplay does not change from the previous wipeouts. The graphics are good for the psp, but still there is almost no change.</p>
<p><em>Here is a screen shot from Wipeout Pulse.</em></p>
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<p><em>Here is a screen shot from Wipeout Pure.</em></p>
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<p><em>As you can see there is almost no graphical change.</em></p>
<p>Well the only great part about this game is the features. When you play online, you log into your PSN account (you do not need a ps3 psn account to play online). You can download custom skins for your vehicles in the game, directly through the game. Another feature is that you can set up racing teams through the Wipeout website. The only bad apart about the online is that there is not much difference between online and offline and there is not that many people that have this game and play online. A good thing is that this game also supports game sharing.</p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Gameplay</span></strong>: 6.5/10<br />
<strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Graphics</span></strong>: 7.5/10<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Multiplayer</strong></span>: 7/10<br />
<strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Replay Value</span></strong>: 5/10<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Features</strong></span>: 8/10<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Overall</strong></span>: 7.4/10</p>
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		<title>Patapon Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 01:34:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Flores</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once in a great while a game comes along that truly amazes and goes beyond the expectations of the players. From flow to Locoroco, Ive seen my share of Quirky unique games, But none grabs my imagination and keeps my feet tapping to a continuous beat like Patapon. For years the patapon tribe has lived [...]]]></description>
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<p>Once in a great while a game comes along that truly amazes and goes beyond the expectations of the players. From flow to Locoroco, Ive seen my share of Quirky unique games, But none grabs my imagination and keeps my feet tapping to a continuous beat like Patapon.</p>
<p>For years the patapon tribe has lived in the desolate frontier, driven from their home by the evil zigoton army, Behind the Patamons&#8217; rhythm pumping, cute dancing and all around awesome looking exterior, lies a fierce warrior spirit. The Patapons believe the Almighty would return, and that the magical drums would once again ring out, lead the Patapons to victory over the Zigotons and guide the lost tribe back to its homeland (otherwise known as the Earthend).</p>
<p>That is the premise behind Patapon. The game behind the addictive rythmatic gameplay thrusting players into an a game where button combinations cause specific beats combining harmony with gameplay.</p>
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<p>As there Almighty, It is your job to guide the Patapons to the promise land through over 30 different chapters using the games unique beat button system. By striking each button on your psp causes a different style beat. When combined in combination with other buttons the patapons come to life, Marching,attacking,Defending, And more. When you have the Patapons worked up to a frenzy, the Fever icon will let you know that you can unleash the rhythms of the Juju, which will create a “miracle.”</p>
<p>Controlling patapons is simple, once you collect the 4 drums and musical notes needed to have access to the sounds you need to memorize the beats.</p>
<p>acquiring more patatroops is as easy as gathering materials from the pataplains and combining them to &#8220;Birth&#8221;, yes i said birth your patapons from what I call the Life Tree. Customization is moderate but enjoyable, Putting different equipment and weapons on your patapons as you find them offers a level of depth. Adding a variety of wood,iron,and steel weapons, Spears, Axes and swords gives the player the edge over the battle.</p>
<p>As you progress through the levels,(you will have times you backtrack) you will encounter various obstacles in your way. You have the ability to resurrect fallen patapons as well as recrute new members.Strategy and Remembering your button combo&#8217;s is the key to your success in the two dimensional world. keeping your spear throwers in the rear, leaving room for your skirmish sword/axe wielding fighters in front for the real damage to be dealt. The initial me lee warriors are the Tatepon, but is also the Yaripon and Yumipon (range attacks), the Kibapon (horse-mounted troops), the Dekapon (large melee troops) and the Megapon (fires sound waves at the enemy).</p>
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<p>Graphically, The game lives up to what we all expect out of a locoroco style side scroll two dimensional playground. Sound is amazing when you get enough rhythms unbroken you start to get a harmonized chant going on behind the pata chant. Keeping a beat is crucial in this game, half second out of beat and your Patapons will look at you like your a mono toned out of beat hillbilly.</p>
<p>The mini-games are fun and interesting. Who doesn&#8217;t love a good minigame? For example you play a trumpet to the tune of a singing, dancing tree and if you get the tune correct he drops materials for your patapons to use. It doesn&#8217;t take long before your sucked into this amazing title. Patapon will keep you captivated for hours on end while you fight the uphill battle to get the tribe to there promise land. Amazing title, I highly recommend this game.</p>
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<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Gameplay</span>: 8.9</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Graphics</span>: 10.0</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Sound</span>: 9.5<br />
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Difficulty: </span>Medium<br />
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Concept</span>: 10.0<br />
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Overall</span>: 9.8</strong></p>
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		<title>Alien Syndrom (PSP)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 00:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Flores</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alright, I got my hands on Alien Syndrom and have to say; if you feel like killing some aliens with either a melee or ranged weapon then this game is for you. This game wasn&#8217;t one of the easiest games for me to pickup and play, but could also be I&#8217;m one of the gamers [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Alright, I got my hands on Alien Syndrom and have to say; if you feel like killing some aliens with either a melee or ranged weapon then this game is for you. This game wasn&#8217;t one of the easiest games for me to pickup and play, but could also be I&#8217;m one of the gamers who hates to read a ton of directions! I&#8217;m writing this review after playing the first 2 levels of them game.<br />
<img src="http://www.sega-press.com/Sega%5CScreenshots%5C8472chaingun_03.jpg" alt="" width="560" height="315" /></p>
<p>Alright, so I picked Firebug as my class I&#8217;ve ended up using the melee weapon way more then I have the Flamethrower Mk1 which I started with. The Flamethrower Mk1 has&#8230; well no range hardly. My melee weapon seems to reach just as far as it and hits a wider area. I found that shooting the Flamethrower Mk1 sucked is the best way to put it. Once you start shooting you go into a strafe mode which makes it hard as hell to aim when a ton of monsters are coming at you.</p>
<p>This game I&#8217;d call a run and gun, but it&#8217;s more of a run and press circle none stop with your melee weapon. To me this game feels like Dynasty Warriors with a woman and aliens.</p>
<p>You have some type of pet that follows you named SCARAB that can craft items, which is really handy actually. Thanks to it I&#8217;ve upgraded like all of my armor and weapons. It can also craft Health Packs which I have to say is a must for this game. Not only does this SCARAB craft items it will also help you with fighting, although I must say it isn&#8217;t one of the best fighting partners. I would had really liked to see some better AI with it.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.sega-press.com/Sega%5CScreenshots%5C8475flamegeyser_02.jpg" alt="" width="560" height="315" /></p>
<p>Well I guess I better also mention that this game has a &#8220;level&#8221; system where you level up for killing stuff, I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve gotten far enough into the game although I&#8217;m sure certain levels are required to wear things.</p>
<p>One thing I do have to say before I end this review is that they did a very bad job on the camera angles, I noticed quite a bit during the first 2 levels that I played that the camera will get blocked by something. I got very annoyed at this although it did not really hurt game-play sense all I had to do was press circle.</p>
<p>The best way to sum this game up is, rent it before you buy it! You may like this game, I myself did not care for it. This game does include multi player which I did not cover in this review. If there is a high demand for it I&#8217;ll gladly go over it.</p>
<p>This game is going to get a 50/100.</p>
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		<title>Jeanne D’ARC Review (PSP)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 00:24:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Flores</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jeanne D'Arc]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Great PSP game, a must buy! Alright so I am wanting to start this review out by saying, if you have a psp this is a must buy. This game is over 40 hours long and has a great story behind it. This game only retails for $29.99 and for me has provided a lot [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>Great PSP game, a must buy!<br />
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<p>Alright so I am wanting to start this review out by saying, if you have a psp this is a must buy. This game is over 40 hours long and has a great story behind it. This game only retails for $29.99 and for me has provided a lot of fun. I do have to say they let me get my hands on it early as you may tell the game does not ship till 08/21/07 and This is being published (not written) on 08/13/07. I want to thank SCEA for letting me get my hands on this great game and allowing me to cover it.<br />
So let’s get into some details about this game, the back story is you are a young female hero fighting off the English in the Hundred Year’s War between France and England. Along with fighting France this young hero must fight off a demonic army that is attempting to destroy the human world. Now I’m sure that all sounds real mystical and fruity to some and I admit I am not a fan of games such as this although I got real into it.</p>
<div style="text-align: center;"><img src="../files/images/jeanne/Neufchateau18.jpg" alt="" /></div>
<p>You start this game’s menu I have to say has a beautiful background of one of the levels farther into the game. The menu is a church with many candles lit. If you sit at the menu screen it’ll go into a trailer type for the game. It has the voice of Jeanne D’ARC and a few other characters I shall not name. It shows game play and tells the story at the same time.</p>
<p>When you start a New Game it will start out with a movie playing that you can skip if you would like although I strongly suggest you don’t. The video goes to show two of the main characters and give a background of the game. It also gives you the history and details of the “Armlets” which is a huge part of the story; the video also shows you the main bad guy who you will fight towards the end of the game.</p>
<div style="text-align: center;"><img src="../files/images/jeanne/Prologue30.jpg" alt="" /></div>
<p>Once the scene of the “bad guys” ends it’ll take you to the Village from which Jeanne is from, where they are celebrating. It will introduce you to the three main characters of the game in this opening scene. It will then take you to the first level which is dark, has good sound and for this type of game I think is real nice looking. I do want to note that there are better more beautiful levels in this game. This is where the story truly started for me, I will not give out anymore detail about this although this is where it starts.</p>
<div style="text-align: center;"><img src="../files/images/jeanne/Prologue7.jpg" alt="" /></div>
<p>The combat in this game is a kind of “take turns” system is what I like to say. You get to move all of your characters once, and use an item or spell, until the person gets “locked” and you cannot move them, although if you have more characters on the screen you can move them and do their action.</p>
<p>Once you complete the Stage it will come up with a “Stage Spoils” screen and give you details such as the bonus exp and gold that you get from completing the stage, you also usually get bonus items, higher into the game those items are sometimes weapons which are very powerful.</p>
<p>Through-out the game you will gain more characters into your “ranks” and you will also loose some. The game as I said before has a huge story, and once the main story is over there are other side quest and more things that you can do. Heck you can even re-play the game again and choose different paths in the story for a slightly different game. As I said before I think everyone who has a PSP should go out and purchase this game at the bargain price of $29.99 we even are going to provide a link at bottom of article where you can purchase it from amazon at. This game gets a 90/100 and I hope you all enjoyed my review/run down of Jeanne D’Arc and hope you enjoy the game as much as I did!</p>
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